Jean-Pierre Antonios

Jean-Pierre Antonios (born 30 January 1965 in Kuwait) is a Finnish-Kuwaiti Paralympic archer who competes at international archery competitions.

[1] Antonios was a militant for the Lebanese Forces until the late 1980s then emigrated to Finland as an asylum seeker in 1990.

He visited his home nation of Lebanon in 1997, on his way to the country, he contracted campylobacter which resulted in his central nervous system get destroyed and was diagnosed with Gullain Barré syndrome.

He returned to Finland and was put on a ventilator for three months, he spent a total of thirteen months in the hospital and he used a wheelchair since then.

[2] In 2000, he was granted Finnish citizenship and also took up archery then competed internationally in 2002.